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Grant applications open for youth program providers - 2026-02-08T22:23:28Z
The city of Toledo is accepting applications for organizations that provide youth programming to receive up to $10,000 each in grants.

LCCS to offer free photo shoots for families - 2026-02-08T19:00:33Z
Lucas County Children Services will offer free family photos Wednesday evening.

Developmental disabilities board to help families apply for grants - 2026-02-08T19:52:34Z
The Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities is offering times for families to receive help applying for special needs grants and other support.

Photo Gallery: Golden Retriever Meet & Greet - 2026-02-08T23:03:56Z
The Golden Retriever Rescue Resource adoption event took place at Hollywood Feed in Toledo on Feb. 8. Click the image above to view the full gallery.

Collectors and sellers alike tune into record show - 2026-02-08T20:19:54Z
Ron Jones looked through stacks of vinyl records with intention — and a smile on his face.

10-year-old accidentally shot by another child at Toledo home - 2026-02-08T20:32:38Z
A 10-year-old is in stable condition after being accidentally shot by another child, police said.

Digitization speeds public’s access to court documents - 2026-02-08T13:45:00Z
For some, the adoption of a child might be cause to obtain official copies of their marital records to show when they married their spouse — or perhaps when they divorced a prior one.

Ohio elections considered transparent but accessibility to information differs - 2026-02-08T13:00:00Z
Voter advocate Jessica King is passionate about working with states to improve election processes, a focus shaped by a decade of hands-on experience with Ohio’s elections.

Future teachers break the ice with elementary schoolers in Winter Olympics Science Camp - 2026-02-07T19:24:20Z
Bowling Green State University’s future educators cheered on Silver Creek Elementary School fifth grader Grayson Fitzpatrick as he arrived at the school on Saturday.

Toledo man charged in threat to kill JD Vance - 2026-02-07T14:42:35Z
A federal grand jury has charged a Toledo man with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance during his Jan. 22 visit to the city.

Ohio bill aims to expedite background checks, improve public safety - 2026-02-07T14:06:41Z
COLUMBUS — Forthcoming legislation in the Ohio House will modernize the state’s fingerprinting and case disposition reporting system, state Rep. Andrea White (R., Kettering) announced.

'We’re hoping for many more years': Couples renew vows in downtown Sylvania - 2026-02-07T02:39:02Z
They stood opposite each other, held hands, looked into each other’s eyes for more than just a few seconds, said “I do,” and then they kissed.

Photo Gallery: Toledo football players call bingo squares for Keyser Elementary students - 2026-02-06T23:17:19Z
A Super Bowl-themed bingo party was hosted on Friday with the help of University of Toledo football players at Keyser Elementary in Toledo.

University of Toledo students join statewide protest of ICE - 2026-02-06T22:52:29Z
Dozens of students from the University of Toledo participated in an anti-ICE rally on the campus on Friday afternoon.

Power restored for most of 6,000 customers out Friday - 2026-02-06T21:48:22Z
Just over 100 customers in Lucas County were still without power Friday evening, not even two hours after nearly 6,000 customers faced outages.

5 men charged in separate immigration law violations - 2026-02-06T21:26:49Z
Federal grand juries have returned indictments charging five foreign nationals found in northwest Ohio with violating immigration laws.

Photo Gallery: Student walkout and protest against ICE at University of Toledo - 2026-02-06T18:37:37Z
Students gathered for a walkout and protest against ICE on Friday at the University of Toledo’s Centennial Mall in Toledo.

Minister who molested boys gets 10 to 15 years in Michigan prison - 2026-02-06T19:08:24Z
ADRIAN — A Lenawee County minister who pleaded no contest in December to molesting three boys he met through his ministry received a sentence Friday morning of 10 to 15 years in prison Friday morning from a circuit judge.

Warner case judge, lawyers hear paint expert explain how samples are compared - 2026-02-06T17:38:23Z
ADRIAN — A Lenawee County judge has allowed prosecutors to put a paint expert on the witness stand during the upcoming murder trial of Dale Warner.

Vance, Ramaswamy on opposite sides of Ohio treasurer's race - 2026-02-06T21:35:56Z
COLUMBUS — While Vice President JD Vance and Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy are aligned on most issues, they back different candidates in the Ohio state treasurer’s race.

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Editorial: Wishing for doom? - 2026-02-08T05:00:00Z
Observing Black History Month to honor the contributions and stories of African-Americans in the United States is an appropriate exercise by the Lucas County Commissioners. Running the Pan-African flag up the flagpole outside Government Center — not so much, especially given the remark made by one participant.

Editorial: Prioritize tax foreclosures - 2026-02-09T04:45:00Z
Lucas County needs dramatic action to collect delinquent property taxes and to clear parcels and buildings that are abandoned, vacant, and in need of restoration or demolition.

Editorial: GOP poll revealing - 2026-02-08T05:00:00Z
Republican politicians are overwhelmingly hostile to solar energy following the lead of Donald Trump, but Republican voters overwhelmingly support solar energy when the technology is an all-American product, according to the pollster used by Trump’s presidential campaigns.

Editorial: Slowed Oregon development - 2026-02-07T05:00:00Z
Data center development in Oregon is six months behind schedule, holding up a $2 billion development that will create lucrative construction jobs and enrich the city and the school system significantly.

Editorial: Noem abused her discretion - 2026-02-06T05:00:00Z
A judge has nicely put her finger on the ugly mindset of the Trump Administration against Haitian immigrants living in this country under “Temporary Protected Status,” or TPS.

Editorial: Belichick snub troubling - 2026-02-05T05:00:00Z
The Pro Football Hall of Fame has received many millions of dollars from Ohio since it opened in Canton in 1963. The citizens of Canton raised the money through donations to build the facility in the community where the National Football League was founded in 1920.

Editorial: Speak up, Republicans - 2026-02-05T04:45:00Z
As many have predicted, President Trump appears to be moving ahead with a scheme to interfere with the 2026 congressional elections on the pretext that there is systemic fraud — especially in the swing states that he lost in 2020.

Editorial: Trump missed point in column - 2026-02-04T04:45:00Z
President Trump wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal defending his tariff policy from economic criticism leveled by the paper’s editorial board, but the President didn’t even mention the one issue that matters the most.

Editorial: DeWine denies population reality - 2026-02-03T05:00:00Z
Help is not on the way because help is not needed.

Editorial: Property tax helped anti-tax zealots - 2026-02-02T05:00:00Z
There are lessons to be learned from the dust-up over the group Toledoans for Trump’s need for a safe public space in which to hold a political gathering.

Editorial: Council delay on water meters costly - 2026-02-01T05:00:00Z
If time is money, and it is, Toledo City Council has money to burn in the constant delays finishing the installation of smart meters to accurately read water use.

Editorial: Keep pushing on 2 key priorities - 2026-02-01T05:00:00Z
Two of the most crucial issues for northwest Ohio’s future are clearly at crossroads dependent upon a commitment of state funding that will require a regional political push to obtain.

Editorial: Gun availability a problem - 2026-01-31T05:00:00Z
The quarterly crime report from Toledo’s mayor and chief of police this week revealed a stubbornly high number of homicides while other crimes appeared to be on the decline.

Editorial: Leave Haitians be - 2026-01-30T05:00:00Z
Few of the immigration crackdowns around the country illustrate better the misguided thinking that has gone into the Trump Administration’s deportation campaign than that planned against the Haitians.

Editorial: New voting rule creates challenge - 2026-01-29T05:00:00Z
As explained by the new president of the Ohio Association of Election Officials, the recently passed S.B. 293 will create headaches for election workers and voters alike.

Editorial: A.G. candidate at odds with OEA - 2026-01-29T04:45:00Z
Ohio Auditor Keith Faber, the likely Republican candidate for Ohio attorney general, should show more concern for the law than is apparent in his recent screed against the Ohio Education Association on the subject of cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Editorial: Make Minneapolis meaningful - 2026-01-28T04:45:00Z
Imagine a U.S. government that works.

Editorial: Trump reveals truth - 2026-01-27T05:00:00Z
We pray that the U.S. Supreme Court caught President Trump’s speech in Davos, Switzerland. Trump unwittingly revealed shockingly clear evidence that his tariff power is a dangerous usurpation of the Constitution and the Congressional authority granting the President emergency power to set tariffs.

Editorial: State should note voting fear - 2026-01-26T05:00:00Z
The head of the League of Women Voters warned in a Martin Luther King, Jr., breakfast last Monday of the 2026 elections being marred by intimidation tactics.

Editorial: Vance oversells economy - 2026-01-25T05:00:00Z
Vice President JD Vance joked that he mistook Toledo for Greenland in his stop here Thursday for a GOP rally aimed at Rep. Marcy Kaptur, (D., Toledo) and the 9th Congressional District seat Republicans covet. His grasp on the local economy suggests he was in a foreign land.

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Walton: For The Blade building, it’s end of an era - 2026-02-08T05:00:00Z
The presses have been silent for many years, their rumble a distant but wonderful memory. The beautiful noise, the busy clatter of hundreds of people assembling what some of us affectionately called the “Daily Miracle,” has gone away. Soon, all that will be left of the grand old building at the corner of Superior and Orange streets in downtown Toledo will be the emptied out shell of a place that has lived beyond its time.

Shribman: Black Americans were fighting 2 wars - 2026-02-08T05:00:00Z
His grandparents and mother were born in Selma, Ala., the site of the violence of the 1965 civil rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act. He grew up in Columbus where within 30 yards of his house six Black active-duty soldiers went off to Vietnam, including one of his childhood heroes — a young man who one day quietly slipped off to war. He went to college in Oxford, Ohio, where eight years earlier the legendary civil rights figure John Lewis had trained the Mississippi Freedom Summer civil rights volunteers, three of whom were murdered.

Lessenberry: Latest Detroit newspaper war over before it began - 2026-02-05T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Back in 1985, there were yellow newspaper boxes selling the Detroit Free Press and red ones with the Detroit News in many places in Toledo and elsewhere in northwest Ohio.

Shribman: An administration bent on upheaval - 2026-02-01T05:00:00Z
PALM BEACH, Fla. — From his lair at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump sees the sun rising. His sunshine retreat doesn’t allow him to see the sun setting.

Lessenberry: Mr. Hamtramck honored - 2026-01-29T05:00:00Z
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — For years, Hamtramck, a tiny enclave city embedded in Detroit, was a symbol of Poland in America. More Polish than English was spoken on the streets and in the shops.

Hussain: A nostalgic visit to city of my birth - 2026-01-28T05:00:00Z
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A few weeks ago, Majeed Babar, a journalist from Peshawar wrote a piece in one of the leading English newspapers of Pakistan. Its title captured my attention: “Losing the Peshawar I Once Knew.” In the article the author compared the orderly life of Paris with chaotic streets of Peshawar. It was a part nostalgic, part lament for an era long past.

Shribman: Let the states try it - 2026-01-25T05:00:00Z
JUPITER, Fla. — Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role of states in the American political system. They were, in a metaphor contained in his 1932 minority opinion in New State Ice Co. vs. Liebmann, laboratories of democracy.

Walton: What does your license PL8 say about you? - 2026-01-25T05:00:00Z
Several years ago during a visit to Mackinaw City in Michigan, we spotted a blue Corvette parked in front of a fudge shop. Its license plate: BLU BY U.

Lessenberry: Gilchrist’s political pivot looks good on paper - 2026-01-22T05:00:00Z
LANSING — On New Year’s Day, Garlin Gilchrist, Michigan’s lieutenant governor, was running hard to get nominated for the top job in August.

Shribman: Things are heating up in Arctic - 2026-01-18T05:00:00Z
Donald Trump and his top lieutenants believe there is no such thing as climate change. Trump and his top lieutenants are worried sick about how the melting of the Arctic polar ice cap is opening a new Northwest Passage, which is a developing national security threat.

Lessenberry: Remembering Lud Ashley - 2026-01-15T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — How many people today remember Thomas Ludlow Ashley, Toledo’s powerful congressman for a quarter-century?

Hussain: Turmoil in Iran is threat to its religious government - 2026-01-14T05:00:00Z
Iran is going through deepening crisis. There have been violent street demonstrations throughout the country. It has been reported that at least 2,000 people have died in skirmishes with the police.

Walton: Every writer’s lament — Curse of blank page - 2026-01-11T05:00:00Z
EVEN GIFTED writers — so I’m told — occasionally find it difficult to sit down at the keyboard and actually start writing something. They stare at the screen and lament the chore at hand. No less an expert at crafting fine prose than longtime 60 Minutes curmudgeon Andy Rooney occasionally had to battle the curse of the blank page.

Shribman: As goes Venezuela, so goes America - 2026-01-11T05:00:00Z
Has Donald  Trump just ripped the mattress tag from international relations?

Guest Editorial: Fate of Venezuelans is now in hands of Trump and America - 2026-01-09T05:00:00Z
“You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people,” the late Gen. Colin Powell told President George W. Bush before the president authorized the Iraq War, according to journalist Bob Woodward. “You will own all their hopes, aspirations and problems. You’ll own it all.”

Lessenberry: Michigan case testing law on animal rights - 2026-01-08T05:00:00Z
LANSING — Could the Michigan Supreme Court decide that chimpanzees and perhaps other animals have “personhood rights,” and no longer can be bought, sold, or held in zoos?

Shribman: Year changes, but many questions remain same - 2026-01-04T05:00:00Z
A new year, the same questions.

Lessenberry: What’s next for Michigan’s Big 3? - 2026-01-01T05:00:00Z
LANSING — Seven years ago today, with considerable fanfare, Gretchen Whitmer, Jocelyn Benson, and Dana Nessel took office as Michigan’s governor, secretary of state, and attorney general.

Hussain: Airbrushing Christmas from Christmas season - 2025-12-31T05:00:00Z
When I landed at Toledo Express Airport in the summer of 1963 to start an internship at St. Charles Hospital, I thought I knew everything there is to know about the United States. I had read American history and had seen a bunch of Hollywood movies. Within few months of my arrival, I had made friends with Wray and Bob Barber who lived on a farm near Perrysburg and many others. Thus began my real introduction to real Americans.

Walton: Bad words bring good performance - 2025-12-28T05:00:00Z
I wish my mother, rest her soul, were alive to read this. So I’ll just have to hope they get The Blade in heaven. Mom, it turns out that those times I let slip with a cuss word didn’t make me a bad kid, despite your anguished assertions to the contrary.

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